{"id":53648,"date":"2017-11-30T06:51:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T06:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=53648"},"modified":"2017-11-30T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T06:51:16","slug":"trump-shares-inflammatory-anti-muslim-videos-and-britains-leader-condemns-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-shares-inflammatory-anti-muslim-videos-and-britains-leader-condemns-them.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump Shares Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Videos, and Britain\u2019s Leader Condemns Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Shares Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Videos, and Britain\u2019s Leader Condemns Them<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Trump Shares Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Videos, and Britain\u2019s Leader Condemns Them:- President Trump touched off another racially charged furor on Wednesday by sharing videos from a fringe British ultranationalist group purportedly showing Muslims committing acts of violence, a move that was swiftly condemned by Britain\u2019s prime minister as well as politicians across the spectrum.<\/span><\/p>\n

The videos Mr. Trump retweeted were titled: \u201cMuslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!\u201d \u201cMuslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!\u201d and \u201cIslamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!\u201d But the assailant in one of them was not a \u201cMuslim migrant\u201d and the other two showed four-year-old events with no explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n

No modern American president has promoted inflammatory content of this sort from an extremist organization. Mr. Trump\u2019s two most recent predecessors, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, both made a point of avoiding public messages that were likely to be seen as anti-Muslim and could exacerbate racial and religious animosities, arguing that the war against terrorism was not a war against Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Mr. Trump has shown little such restraint, targeting Muslims with a broad brush, including when he claimed on the campaign trail last year that \u201cIslam hates us\u201d and when he called for a \u201ctotal and complete shutdown\u201d of Muslims coming to the United States. Since taking office, he has sought to block visitors from select Muslim-majority nations and engaged in a long-distance feud with the Muslim mayor of London, whom he branded weak on terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n

The messages came at a time when Mr. Trump has been lashing out at an array of perceived adversaries, including the National Football League, CNN, NBC and Democratic leaders. He referred to a senator as \u201cPocahontas\u201d this week in front of Navajo veterans he was honoring. In a meandering speech in St. Charles, Mo., on Wednesday, Mr. Trump labeled North Korea\u2019s leader a \u201csick puppy,\u201d asserted that welfare recipients lived better than some people with jobs, noted that his wealthy friends \u201clove their children\u201d and insisted that he did not like some bankers even though he was making their job \u201ceasy for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s unbridled talk of Muslim violence thrilled some conservative supporters who see him as a truthteller breaking from the shackles of political correctness, but it alarmed mainstream political leaders in the United States and Britain, who deemed it reckless and counterproductive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, who has broken with Mr. Trump, called the postings \u201chighly inappropriate\u201d and added, \u201cI hope he takes them down and doesn\u2019t do it again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who lately has been an ally of the president, said Mr. Trump was \u201clegitimizing religious bigotry\u201d with the Twitter posts. \u201cWe need Muslim allies in the war on terror,\u201d he said. \u201cI can only imagine how some of our Muslim allies must feel when the president gives legitimacy to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The reaction was sharp in London, where Prime Minister Theresa May, the leader of the Conservative Party, denounced the president for sharing material posted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, the ultranationalist group. \u201cIt is wrong for the president to have done this,\u201d Mrs. May\u2019s office said in a statement. \u201cBritain First seeks to divide communities by their use of hateful narratives that peddle lies and stoke tensions. They cause anxiety to law-abiding people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

David Lammy, a Labour Party member of Parliament, echoed that on Twitter. \u201cTrump sharing Britain First,\u201d he wrote. \u201cLet that sink in. The President of the United States is promoting a fascist, racist, extremist hate group whose leaders have been arrested and convicted. He is no ally or friend of ours.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Late in the day, Mr. Trump pushed back against the prime minister. \u201cTheresa,\u201d he wrote on Twitter, initially getting her handle wrong, \u201cdon\u2019t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, defended the president\u2019s tweets, saying he was talking about the need for national security and military spending.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe threat is real,\u201d she told reporters. \u201cThe threat needs to be addressed. The threat has to be talked about, and that\u2019s what the president is doing in bringing that up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Some activists on the right expressed appreciation for the blunt talk about the threat from Islamic extremists. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty major undercurrent for all of American politics since 2001, as it should be,\u201d said Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates less immigration. \u201cThat\u2019s not news. He just expresses that stuff in the most unfiltered, guy-ranting-in-the-bar\u201d way.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first video distributed by Mr. Trump to his nearly 44 million followers on Wednesday showed a teenage boy attacking another and was presented as footage of a \u201cMuslim migrant\u201d beating a Dutch boy.<\/span><\/p>\n

But according to local officials, both boys are Dutch. The clip was taken in Monnickendam, a small town in the North Holland province of the Netherlands in May and shows a teenager punching and kicking another boy holding a crutch. Marleen van Fessem, a spokeswoman for the local public prosecutor\u2019s office, confirmed the 16-year-old boy who was arrested after the video came to light was \u201cborn and raised in the Netherlands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Embassy of the Netherlands in Washington then chided Mr. Trump. \u201cFacts do matter,\u201d it replied to the president on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two additional videos were taken in 2013, one in Syria, the other in Egypt, and are provided with no explanation of the political turmoil taking place in those countries at the time, and with no details on the extremist affiliations of one of the men in the video.<\/span><\/p>\n

The president\u2019s decision to share them was in keeping with his habit of disseminating information he has not verified even as he attacks news organizations for producing \u201cfake news.\u201d Two White House aides, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said Mr. Trump found the videos himself. Aides said they believed he spotted one on the Twitter feed of Ann Coulter, the conservative commentator.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an email later in the day, Ms. Coulter said that while she was still \u201cannoyed\u201d that Mr. Trump had not yet built the border wall he promised, \u201cI LOVE the president\u2019s tweets!\u201d Responding to the British criticism, she said, \u201cMaybe between blathering about the values of \u2018tolerance and respect,\u2019 poor Theresa May might want to ask herself whether the Muslims the U.K. is importing at breakneck speed share these \u2018values of tolerance and respect.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Britain First was partly founded in 2011 by James Dowson, a far-right activist who left the group in 2014 and supported Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. The organization calls itself a \u201cpatriotic\u201d political party, but has been criticized by human rights activists as an extremist group that seeks to bait Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Fransen, who has previously been charged in Britain with \u201creligious aggravated harassment,\u201d thanked Mr. Trump for promoting her message. \u201cI\u2019m facing prison for criticising Islam,\u201d she wrote on Twitter. \u201cBritain is now Sharia compliant. I need your help!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/trump-anti-muslim-videos-jayda-fransen.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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